Shell
Ken Saro Wiwa was an activist against Shell in Ogoniland, Nigeria. He was also a TV producer and writer. When Saro started a campaign against Shell, yes Shell.....our gas station Shell, to recover their land and fight for their health and rights *peacefully*.
At the peak of his non-violent campaign, Saro-Wiwa was arrested, hastily tried by a "special" military tribunal, and HANGED in 1995 by the military government of General Sani Abacha, all on charges widely viewed as entirely politically motivated and completely UNFOUNDED. ( Sani Abacha had a close "Economic" relation with Shell ).
"Appalled by the denigrating poverty of my people who live on a richly endowed land, distressed by their political marginalization and economic strangulation, angered by the devastation of their land, their ultimate heritage, anxious to preserve their right to life and to a decent living, and determined to usher to this country as a whole and a fair and just democratic system which protects everyone and every ethic group and gives us all a valid claim to human civilization, I have devoted my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief"
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Now days Shell still pumps more than 250,000 barrels a day from Nigeria.
Chevron
In may 1998, less than three years after Ken's execution, members of another Nigerian community -the Ilaje- were shot and two were killed while engaging a NONVIOLENT protest on a Chevron oil platform off the Nigerian Coast. According to Earth Rights International, Chevron called in the Nigerian military and police, flew them to the platform on Chevron-contracted helicopters, and SUPERVISED THEIR ATTACK AGAINST THE PROTESTERS!
The crazy thing is, we have perfectly good alternatives to petroleum for both energy and materials. There is no need to continue such widespread environmental destruction and violence to meet our energy needs!
Ken Saro Wiwa was an activist against Shell in Ogoniland, Nigeria. He was also a TV producer and writer. When Saro started a campaign against Shell, yes Shell.....our gas station Shell, to recover their land and fight for their health and rights *peacefully*.
At the peak of his non-violent campaign, Saro-Wiwa was arrested, hastily tried by a "special" military tribunal, and HANGED in 1995 by the military government of General Sani Abacha, all on charges widely viewed as entirely politically motivated and completely UNFOUNDED. ( Sani Abacha had a close "Economic" relation with Shell ).
"Appalled by the denigrating poverty of my people who live on a richly endowed land, distressed by their political marginalization and economic strangulation, angered by the devastation of their land, their ultimate heritage, anxious to preserve their right to life and to a decent living, and determined to usher to this country as a whole and a fair and just democratic system which protects everyone and every ethic group and gives us all a valid claim to human civilization, I have devoted my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief"
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Now days Shell still pumps more than 250,000 barrels a day from Nigeria.
Chevron
In may 1998, less than three years after Ken's execution, members of another Nigerian community -the Ilaje- were shot and two were killed while engaging a NONVIOLENT protest on a Chevron oil platform off the Nigerian Coast. According to Earth Rights International, Chevron called in the Nigerian military and police, flew them to the platform on Chevron-contracted helicopters, and SUPERVISED THEIR ATTACK AGAINST THE PROTESTERS!
The crazy thing is, we have perfectly good alternatives to petroleum for both energy and materials. There is no need to continue such widespread environmental destruction and violence to meet our energy needs!
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